Linsay has written professionally since 2004. Her background lies in academic writing and research -- she has a master's in anthropology and a master's of library and information science -- and she's worked in non-profit development and corporate community relations, writing grants, composing newsletters, managing campaigns and creating marketing materials. She's written more than 4,000 SEO (Search Engine Optimized) articles on topics ranging from gardening to green living, travel to parenting, health to nutrition, women's issues to finance, SEO techniques to real estate, insurance to fitness. Her work has been published on USA Today, Houston Chronicle, Sitterfied, Motley Fool, Trails Travel, Livestrong, San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate, the Nest, Modern Mom, AZ Central, Global Post, Hidden Valley Ranch and Pureformance.com. She's also created content and landing pages for company websites, ghostwritten e-books and white papers, and written more blog posts than she can count. Linsay's currently employed as a copywriter/content creator for an international education company.

Green Living

Garden

Travel

Non Profit

Blog Post

Home Living

Insurance

Fashion

Annual Report

Book

Brochure

Health

Article

Humor

Product Description

Kids/Family

Search Marketing

Consumer Goods

Finance

Web Page

Women

Grant/Proposal

Politics

Real Estate

Nutrition

Food

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Linsay E's Health Industry Experience

284 Projects Completed

Health - Linsay is all for it! She's written articles, features and blogs on topics like healthy eating, exercising, heart-healthy cooking, vitamins and weight loss. She's also a writer/editor for Pureformance.com, an innovative wellness/fitness start-up that incorporates nutrition, exercise and mindfulness with a healthy dose of super deep thoughts. Yay for philosophy and exercise! Her work appears on sites like Houston Chronicle, AZ Central, Global Post, Pureformance, Livestrong and FRS.

Specialties

Linsay can write (almost) anything that requires research, including articles, blog posts, research pieces, product descriptions and press releases. She's well-versed in AP, APA and AAA style and can tailor her writing style to your specific audience, whether you need funny, authoritative, narrative or conversational articles -- or want an article that sounds like it was written by a snarky, sarcastic bugger.

Interests

Linsay loves reading, traveling, cooking, gardening, sailing, hiking and spending time with her amazing kids and her awesome husband.

Education

University of Southern Mississippi

Focus on bibliometric research

Western Washington University

Focus on socio-cultural anthropology

Travel

1,058 Projects Completed, Elite Badge Awarded

Linsay used to work in the airline industry -- yes, she was that annoying person at the gate whose only goal in life was to make your trip hellish -- and she's traveled extensively since childhood. She's also written more than 1,000 articles and blog posts on hotels to hostels, cruises to bicycle tours, honeymoons to adventure travel, and budget to luxury travel for sites like USA Today Travel, Trails.com and Vacation Maine. She currently "satisfies" her wanderlust by writing for an international education company.

Garden

1,030 Projects Completed, Elite Badge Awarded

Linsay has written more than 1,000 gardening articles for sites such as the San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate and local nurseries on topics ranging from xeriscaping to rain gardening, using native plants to choosing salt-, deer- and drought-resistant species. Her article "Extreme Shade Plants" won a $1,500 reader's choice award from Demand Media. Ironically, after moving from the Pacific Northwest to the Sonoran Desert a few years ago, her (many and varied) attempts at gardening have been, shall we say, varied. But she's working on it. Cause let's be honest here, plants are awesome!

Real Estate

652 Projects Completed

Linsay has published on topics such as remodeling to sell, short sales, foreclosures, staging, moving, commercial real estate development, property management and real estate demographics. She's created several real estate websites from the ground up and has ghostwritten countless real estate blog posts for commercial and residential Realtors. She's also written numerous Realtor and mortgage loan officer bios. She currently writes for the real estate section of SF Gate/San Francisco Chronicle with an emphasis on landscaping to sell in the Bay Area.

Finance

435 Projects Completed

Linsay has written finance articles for the Motley Fool website and created blog posts, articles, downloadables and web pages for a number of investment companies, including a politically progressive financial advisor and a company that provides passive investment services to high wealth individuals. Topics range from the stock market to budgeting, definition of economic terms to investing, the role of the Federal Reserve to estate planning.

Consumer Goods

432 Projects Completed

Linsay's a compulsive reader -- she's compelled to read every bit of text she sees -- but she absolutely hates commercials and and she really hates reading boring product descriptions! To remedy this, Linsay loves to write entertaining descriptions that grab the customer's attention -- and get them to click and buy.

Kids/Family

353 Projects Completed

Linsay has two little beasties of her own, so she knows a thing or two -- seriously, it often feels like just one or two things -- about the craziness of life with kids. She's written kid-centric articles on topics like traveling with children, mindful parenting, cooking for the family, green living with kids, and kid-friendly activities, hotels, restaurants, and attractions in various locales around the U.S. and the world. Her parenting articles are published on sites like USA Today Travel and Sitterfied, and she's ghostwritten for a number of parenting, child therapy and child health blogs.

Health

284 Projects Completed

Health - Linsay is all for it! She's written articles, features and blogs on topics like healthy eating, exercising, heart-healthy cooking, vitamins and weight loss. She's also a writer/editor for Pureformance.com, an innovative wellness/fitness start-up that incorporates nutrition, exercise and mindfulness with a healthy dose of super deep thoughts. Yay for philosophy and exercise! Her work appears on sites like Houston Chronicle, AZ Central, Global Post, Pureformance, Livestrong and FRS.

Fashion

202 Projects Completed

As you would expect from a mother of two living in suburban Phoenix, Linsay is a paragon of high style - namely, styles found on Target's 75%-off rack. Seriously, she looks both fierce and fabulous when she's engaged in the glamorous activities that make up her day-to-day (when she's not writing, of course), like changing diapers, putting the d**m toys back in the d**m toybox for the umpteeth time, and driving her kids back and forth to playdates. She puts this razor-sharp fashion sense (most of which has been gleaned from watching every episode of Project Runway, ever) to work in her articles about fashion. Make it work!

Insurance

201 Projects Completed

Like everyone, Linsay believes that insurance is an inherently exciting, sexy and glamorous topic -- ahem -- but she does her best to spice it up even further. Just TRY to keep from laughing out loud while you read her writing sample about Florida's no-fault insurance law. She's also written about several aspects of the insurance industry, from personal health to auto, and her work appears on national and local, independent insurance company pages.

Home Living

153 Projects Completed

Not many things are more exciting than air ducts, HVAC systems and cement fiber siding. Linsay knows this because she's written about all of them, including a rewrite of an entire air duct website as well as home improvement articles on topics like kitchen remodels, landscaping and foundation repair.

Non Profit

107 Projects Completed, Elite Badge Awarded

Before leaving the "lucrative" world of non-profit for the equally lucrative but even less stable world of freelance writing, Linsay was a grant-writer/fundraiser for non-profits and foundations. She has written about grant writing, fund raising and non-profit organizations in various regions and fields, and has written numerous successful grant proposals (up to $750K, thank you Bill Gates), annual reports, direct mail campaigns and newsletters.

Green Living

101 Projects Completed

Linsay's green creds = She recycles! Composts (which, in Phoenix, is more like a science experiment)! Brings her own bags to the store! Attended a super-crunchy liberal arts university! Drives a hybrid! (OK, full disclosure, the other family car is a massive, gas-guzzling Canyonero that is utterly necessary to pull the pop-up camper)! From the green, green PNW! Plus, she has written about topics like solar panels, solar ovens, pet-safe weed killers, soil and water conservation, geothermal energy, water-wise gardening, eco-friendly real estate remodels and eating/cooking/gardening with organic foods.

Food

81 Projects Completed

Mmmmm... donuts. Linsay likes to cook and to eat, and she loves to read and write about it, too -- in fact, she's completely obsessed with Cook's Illustrated. Most of her food-related articles center on nutrition, menu planning and organic eating and have been published on sites like Hidden Valley Ranch and AZ Central. She's also the writer/editor at Pureformance.com, an innovative wellness start-up with a focus on incorporating healthy eating as part of an overall fit lifestyle.

Nutrition

79 Projects Completed

Linsay just looooves to eat but she doesn't want to have to someday be hoisted out of her living room by a crane, so she attempts to eat as nutritiously as possible. She's written nutrition, diet, cooking and healthy eating articles for sites including Hidden Valley Ranch and Livestrong. Of course, she's ironically eating a cro-nut while she writes this.

Politics

53 Projects Completed

Linsay is a political junkie of the worst kind; she gets very worked up when reading about politics so has to limit her time on HuffPost, Politico and the NYT. She loves to write about politics, though, and is (mostly) capable of keeping her biases -- which are strong and many -- to herself, even through the word "Santorum" makes her giggle every time she hears it. Linsay is also a director of an advocacy non-profit that lobbies state government.

Women

52 Projects Completed, Elite Badge Awarded

Linsay's primary research on the impact of electronic journals on women's representation in academic publishing was recently published in the journal LIBRES. She's done extensive research on the impact of U.S. population policies on women's access to reproductive health care in the global South, as well as published research on the impact of intellectual property laws on women's access to HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries.She's also published articles, blog posts and a couple of chapters in an e-book on sex, gender and women's issues, such as the evolving nature of women's roles and rights in education, the workplace and society; the influence of social media and the Internet on gender roles and male-female relationships; transgender issues; and global women's issues. Plus, she's a woman, so that helps.

Search Marketing

39 Projects Completed

Though sometimes it seems like navel gazing, Linsay has ghostwritten many blog posts about... you guessed it, blogging -- or more specifically, blogging with search engine optimization intent. She's also written posts about online marketing for small businesses, B2B marketing and using SEO to drive traffic.

Humor

30 Projects Completed

Linsay can be funny, especially after she's had a few drinks -- not that she would ever drink and write, how dare you suggest it! However now that Linsay has kids, she has to keep her constant snark monologue to herself, rather than uttering it out loud and damaging their tender, fragile psyches. But that's good news for you, because her built-up reservoir of snide observations on the human condition must have an outlet lest her head explode. And if she runs out of ideas, she just inserts the word "Santorum." Seriously, try it. Works every time!

Article

2,886 Projects Completed, Elite Badge Awarded

Linsay's written more than 4,000 search engine optimized -- SEO -- articles on a wide variety of topics, from travel to gardening, Drupal to WordPress, finance to parenting, green living to real estate, SEO practices to gladiators (Seriously, gladiators). Her articles appear on sites such as the Houston Chronicle, Motley Fool, USA Today Travel, Hidden Valley Ranch, Vacation Maine, San Francisco Chronicle and Livestrong.
She's published academic articles on subjects such as intellectual property rights and AIDS pharmaceutical distribution in the developing world, and gendered trends in library and information science academic publishing.

Blog Post

1,171 Projects Completed

Linsay's ghostwritten blog posts on topics ranging from green living to parenting, credit card reporting to residential real estate, travel to home improvement.

Product Description

302 Projects Completed

Linsay has written hundreds of product descriptions for items ranging from shoes to outdoor gear, exercise equipment to jewelry, electronics to socks. Her goal? To write engaging -- or even humorous, when appropriate -- content that keeps readers engaged and encourages them to click and buy.

Grant/Proposal

53 Projects Completed

Linsay has researched, written and successfully submitted a variety of grants for non-profit organizations (child abuse prevention, education, services for immigrants) and environmental foundations.

Brochure

24 Projects Completed

Linsay has written product descriptions for online brochures. Products include sporting goods, electronics, clothing and accessories.

Book

22 Projects Completed

Linsay has ghostwritten content for an e-book that explores the role of the Internet in gender roles and sexuality among today's college students; part of an academic volume of research focused on municipal economic development in the age of social media; several e-books about real estate for home buyers and seller; three e-books about nutrition, fitness, exercise and mindfulness; an e-book on passive investing; and an e-book about the role of the feminist movement in today's male-female relations. Whew.

Annual Report

21 Projects Completed, Elite Badge Awarded

As a grant writer and fund raiser for non-profits and foundations, Linsay was responsible for writing annual reports.